Jed picked up the new Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition game for me at Target the other day. It was a Kickstarter project, but due to complications, Kickstarter backers won’t get their copies for a bit, but you can now buy it exclusively at Target. So we played a game last night, and are playing it […]
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Learned a new game yesterday, particularly of interest to gardeners and butterfly lovers and science teachers. This is Mariposa, and you spend the game migrating and breeding monarch butterflies. You need a sufficiency of flowers to breed, and some milkweed; there are monarch waystations along the way. The game is 2-5 players; I think it
I miss people. Help me think this through. Pre-pandemic, we did close to weekly potluck board game nights, which I really enjoyed. I’ve been itching to do them again. Does it seem reasonable to do: – backyard / front porch potluck & board games (we have a 10×10 tent, but would probably just cancel if
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Jed’s headed back to California. I haz a sad. We’ll both be fully vaccinated by end of May, I think, so maybe I can go out for a visit sometime in May or June. We’ll see how COVID behaves, and if it seems reasonably responsible to get on a plane at that point. Before he
Jed and I took a work break this afternoon for a few hours to teach Kavi Wingspan. We had a lot of fun with their Wingsong app, that lets you hear the birdsong of the various birds! She particularly liked the hummingbird card, and I told her that we could have hummingbirds in our garden,
If you don’t mind learning a slightly complex game (I’d say this is a bit more complex than Settlers of Catan, but not as complex as Terraforming Mars), I’d recommend Wingspan, especially if you love birds and/or would like to learn more about them. Jed and I played two games yesterday, and enjoyed it! There
Jed taught me and Kavi a new game yesterday, Letter Jam — a cooperative word-forming game. If you have at least 3 word-loving people, this is a fun option — Kavi enjoyed it enough to want to play again immediately after the first game. If you like Boggle, this is sort of vaguely like that,
I promise they were having lots of fun, although it doesn’t necessarily look like it in this picture. Teaching game of Planetarium with Kavi and me, and it came out very close — Jed won, but just barely. This is also a game I don’t need to own, I think, because there’s a sort of
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Jed taught me a new board game this afternoon, _The Expanse_, based on yes, the books and TV show of that name. They did a pretty good job of bringing the setting and characters into game play, so that part was pleasing. I also stomped him, which is always fun, but I think that’s mostly
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Jed wrote a long thing about RPGs, and I was skimming it, and thinking about what I like about gaming, and I realized that most of my favorite games are about managing scarce resources + building a better world (Civilization, Polytopia, Terraforming Mars, etc.)… …and um, that’s a lot of what I like about being
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